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Government Asks Colleges to Enhance the Nation's Internet Capacity

Chronicle of Higher Education

March 17, 2010

Universities have been in the advanced-networking business for years. Now the federal government has proposed expanding academe's role in the Internet further, by enlisting institutions in an effort to bring ultra-high-speed access to more community institutions. The proposal is part of the first-ever federal blueprint for broadband, released this week, to connect by 2020 the 100 million people who still lack access to broadband.

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